Ed Hare went
to Manassas yesterday and says he observed "S9 +20 dB" interference on 40 meters
and other frequencies. He's going back with witnesses.
Dave
Greetings.
One small toss of a
bone to us is attached. I received today two copies, one certified and one
not, of the attached, somewhat confusing request from FCC's Enforcement Bureau
to Ambient Corporation. Ambient operates a dirty BPL system in Briarcliff
Manor, NY that Ed Hare has measured numerous times in the
BPLmobile.
This is little more than a request for measurement data, if
any exists which has not yet been shredded by Ambient. This BPL facility is
operating pursuant to a Part 5 experimental license but has not filed a
complete response to the conditions of the authorization. Nor has it responded
to an FCC March 16, 2007 letter requesting compliance information. It had
30 days to respond to that, but failed.
Ambient is a trash
operator, and this letter is a good thing. But let's put it in
perspective. FCC says they are investigating our complaint dated March
29, 2006, well more than a year ago. And the investigation is just beginning.
Why so long? Perhaps FCC wanted to make sure that no BPL installations were
deterred by unnecessary interference enforcement.
Still, one hopes that
there is presently some interference left up there, since no other complaints
of BPL interference are active at the moment. It would be unfortunate if
nothing was left of the interference we have barked about for so long
now.
73, Chris W3KD